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Toonbots archive: episode published 7 December, 2000

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A daring statement on the part of the meta-cartoonist, this episode brings a Shakespearean flavor to the rather piquante meta-referentiality inherent in the concept of a toonbot drawn by the Toon-o-Matic.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="300" width="500" rowformat="2">
<panel>
  <character name="will"><draw type="image" file="shakespeare.bmp"/></character> 
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom left">There once was a poet named Will</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dot" rel-h="1" rel-w="100"></character> 
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom left">Who never once met a Dot.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dot" action="leaves"></character> 
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="top left">And he'd be poeting still</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="bot" rel-h="40" rel-w="100"></character> 
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="top left">If he'd bothered to write a Bot.</caption>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom left" fgcolor="blue" size="18">Wouldst name me slacker, toonboy?</caption>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom right" direction="up" fgcolor="blue" size="18">Bacon!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>